Bloody Diarrhoea
Dysentery (bloody diarrhoea) is usually associated with fever but this is not always the case. Shigella aetiology, differential and management
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Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome
Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome (LGL): Proposed pre-excitation syndrome. Accessory pathway composed of James fibres.
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833 - 1910) was a German pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with von Recklinghausen disease (neurofibromatosis NF-1); von Recklinghausen tumor (adenoleiomyofibroma); and von Recklinghausen canals (lymphatic canaliculi).
René Laennec
René Laennec (1781-1826) was a French physician. Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816 also coined the terms for cirrhosis and melanoma
Hein Wellens
Henrick Joan Joost (Hein) Wellens (1935 - ) is a Dutch cardiologist. Eponymously affiliated with Wellens syndrome in 1982
Stiff in the mouth
Tropical Traveler Clinical Case. Tetanus aetiology, differential, diagnosis, management, treatment and prophylaxis
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolff?
A 61 year old male walks up to the triage desk complaining of a funny feeling in his chest. He has had similar milder episodes in the past and has been investigated by his GP with no firm diagnosis being…
Frothing Mad
Frothing mad. Tropical Travel Clinical Case. Rabies aetiology, diagnosis, differential, management, treatment and prophylaxis
Quetiapine Toxicity
A classic toxicological ECG demonstrating the key electrophysiological changes seen with quetiapine overdose.
Reports of therapeutic hypothermia’s death are greatly exaggerated
Reports of Therapeutic Hyopthermia's death are greatly exaggerated - are we confusing rigor mortis with a radical face lift?
Bennett fracture
Bennett fracture: Intra-articular fracture of the base of first metacarpal with carpometacarpal joint involvement. Edward Hallaran Bennett (1837-1907)
Edward H Bennett
Edward Hallaran Bennett (1837-1907) Irish surgeon. Bennett fracture: Two-part intra-articular thumb fracture base of first metacarpal